Steve Rinella Details After Effects of Grizzly Bear Encounter

This dude has what so many people don’t - a HEALTHY humility and strength to show that he’s human.

If a grizzly bear eats Joe rogan. The bear will have a Joe Rogan experience.

“I’m embarrassed to admit but I think it’s instructive to point out” that takes a real man to say and admit 💯

It’s jarring to see Steven like this. Every time I’ve heard him talk he’s so confident...this experience shook him. Glad he’s okay, he’s a treasure.

This man needs to stop beating himself up. Getting caught off guard by an attacking grizzly bear. You're in his world there mate and you came out alive, nothing to be ashamed of.

Rinella will probably live longer after the bear attack, because of the healthy effects of his complete colon cleanse during the experience.

Rinella is the best repeat guest all-time. I don't even hunt but his knowledge and stories and level of honesty are so great to listen to

As an Alaskan I completely understand how Steve feels. I hunt quite a bit and I am always wary of brown bear. I have zero desire to ever have an encounter. Many folks with guns have wound up dead or hurt very badly by brown bear and they never fired a shot. Even if you were able to get a shot off that hit him in the hear and lungs, he would have roughly 40 seconds to live. That would be the longest 40 seconds of your life!

Appreciate that he's not trying to tell a fishing story and he's upfront about the fact that he was terrified instead of playing it off or joking it off like most people would.

If Rinella gets eaten by a bear, he would give the bear trichonosis. The ultimate switcharoo.

The fact that one of our times greatest hunters has the awareness and self-deprecating mindset to tell s truthfully what he felt is astonishing. In a world of tiktoc liars and false prophets he is a breath of fresh air. He literally told millions of listeners that the biggest baddest hunter quivered to his knees when charged by a grizzly. Amazing.

You can tell he is completely legitimate. He locks his arms together. Showing he is extremely uncomfortable. I don't blame him one bit. Very very lucky man.

"There a certain kind of mindset that comes from never being challenged" S.Rinella

I failed to help an elderly women when she tripped and hit her head on the concrete. I froze, but at the same time I knew that I should go and help pick her up. It took me what it feels like forever to decide to walk faster to help her, but after I made that decision, a young man RANNED past by me without hesitation and helped her. All I did was then walked away and told myself that it's going to be okay, she's getting help. I never felt so ashamed of myself and still think about that to this very day.

I was trail running by myself in Montana this summer when I came around a switchback and surprised a giant grizzly; it jolted and ran away before I even realized what happened. I didn't think much of it at first, which was probably best because I was able to stay calm. But reality set in shortly after the fact and I'm still haunted by it to this day. It was a very humbling experience and let me know in a very real way just how vulnerable we are as humans.

So much respect for Steve, this is a man you can learn something from.

Kinda like Mike Tyson's quote " everybody's got a plan till they get punched in the mouth" or something to that effect

I liked his honesty, respect to him for that

I owned and operated a firearms and archery shop in Port Angeles, WA from 1978-1988. While it wasn't especially profitable in that small town locale, it kept me in beans and it provided many an entertaining conversation with colorful and interesting characters among my clientele. I watched this to get additional perspective after seeing the interview with Remi Warren on the same topic. Both guys mentioned how the bear came in while the group were preoccupied with having lunch. It reminded me of a story told by a doctor who'd retired to the Olympic Peninsula after having spent his career in panhandle Alaska--at Ketchikan if I remember correctly. The doctor told me about a bear attack incident he had attended as an emergency room staffer. It illustrates the sheer power of the bears. While I have lost some details of the story over more than three decades, two significant ones have stuck with me. First, the victim was one of a pair of loggers sitting on a downed log while eating their lunch sandwiches. Timber fellers through at least the first half of the 20th century did not typically wear hearing protection on the job. Thus, their hearing was doubtlessly little better than that of a World War 2 machine gunner (my late father was one of those). While eating their lunch, the pair never heard the grizzly approaching from behind. The first they knew of its presence was when the bear bit down on one logger's left shoulder. I can't recall why the bear let go, other than perhaps being startled when yelled at by the logger's partner. The second detail that I do remember is the doctor saying that he could look down into the wound and see the logger's heart beating as a result of that single bite.

Steve is the best. Such an honest, no BS individual. He tells you how he feels and doesn't apologize for it. Love that guy.